Bragg: City provides condemnation information

11:42 PM,
Sep. 13, 2013

Written by

Mayor Tommy Bragg

As a rapidly growing city, Murfreesboro often is widening roads, building roads and rehabilitating and extending water and sewer lines and electric service. Our city usually must acquire property for rights of way and easements. To landowners, this can be confusing to their life and property interests.

Often in our General Assembly, bills are offered to increase notices, change procedures or otherwise alter the eminent domain (condemnation) process. Regardless of a state, county, city or utility improvement in the works, there can be apprehension, anxiety and misunderstanding ...